A developmental perspective on visual word recognition: New evidence and a self-organising model

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 669-694

  Dufau, Stéphane ^a   Lété, Bernard ^b   Touzet, Claude ^a   Glotin, Hérve ^c   Ziegler, Johannes C ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

Author keywords

Implicit learning; Orthographic neighbourhood; Reading acquisition; Self organising map; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHILD; DATA BASE; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77954992820     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440903031230     Document Type: Article

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